President Barack Obama held an extremely important White House news conference this week before a bunch of national security advisers about how to proceed against Islamic State militants in the Middle East.

However, it wasn’t his statements on foreign policy that made news.

It was, as it turns out, the president’s sartorial choice that afternoon which stole the spotlight and grabbed the most headlines.

Donned in a crisp summer tan suit, while Obama discussed U.S. strategy in Iraq – where ISIS is increasingly expanding its self-declared caliphate – this is what Twitter was talking about: